Loughborough Lightning FC
Loughborough Lightning's women's football club has two roots that came together. The playing side traces back to 1999, when Gail and Paul Fox founded Shepshed Foxes — renamed Loughborough Foxes in 2002 — to give local girls a chance to play; after 15 years in local leagues the Foxes climbed to the third tier by 2015. In 2021, that club combined with Loughborough University's high-performance women's football programme to form Loughborough Lightning, taking the name of the University's well-known "Lightning" sporting family that also fields elite netball, rugby and cricket teams. Based at Loughborough's world-class sporting facilities, the football side pairs competitive women's football with full sports-science, medicine and academic support — a distinctive university-backed high-performance model — and has continued to climb the national pyramid, winning promotion as Midlands division champions.
National League Northern Premier Division — Table
| Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Form |
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1
Rugby Borough WFC
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9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 22 | LWWWD |
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2
West Bromwich Albion F.C. Women
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9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 21 | WWWWW |
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3
Huddersfield Town Women
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9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 18 | WDLWD |
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4
Stoke City FC Women
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9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 17 | DDWLW |
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5
Liverpool Feds WFC
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9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 13 | WLLWD |
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6
Peterborough United WFC
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9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 19 | -7 | 13 | LWWWD |
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7
Derby County Women
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9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 15 | -4 | 12 | WLWWL |
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8
Norwich City Women FC
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9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | DWDLD |
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9
Loughborough Lightning FC
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9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 19 | -8 | 8 | DLLLD |
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10
Middlesbrough FC Women
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9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 7 | LLDLW |
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11
Boldmere St Michaels Women
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9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 25 | -13 | 6 | DDLLL |
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12
Hull City Ladies
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9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 18 | -11 | 4 | LDLLL |
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